Salutary Neglect

In the year 1607 settlers from England landed on the banks of the James River and established the first English colony of Jamestown.

The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America.

This was the first governing document of the Plymouth colony. Written by the saints.

Plymouth rock is the place where William Bradford and the Mayflower pilgrims who founded Plymouth colony landed.

These orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut river towns.

An armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by young Nathaniel Bacon against William Berkeley.

The overthrow of King James the Second of England by a union of english parliamentarians.

It was a restatement in statutory form of the Declaration of Right presented by the Convention Parliament to William and Mary.

The Salem Witch Trials were a series of trials on people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.

Zenger began printing The New Weekly Journal to voice his opinions about the colonial governor and was later jailed.